TORONTO — The Air France jet that skidded into a ravine and burned this week landed farther down the runway than it should have, but it is too soon to know if that was the reason for the crash, aviation investigators said Friday.

He then ran on board the burning wreckage of Flight 358 to make sure no one was left behind. The 37-year-old airport rental car manager says he didn't have time to stop and think about the danger when he witnessed the crash during a routine Tuesday afternoon.

"There was no thinking involved, just, 'I gotta go help,' so boom, I did it," he said Tuesday.

There were no unusual mechanical problems with the Air France plane that skidded off the runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport and burst into flames, says a preliminary investigation into the August incident.

"No significant anomalies of the aircraft systems have been found to date," said the Transportation Safety Board in a report released on Wednesday.

"The flight controls functioned as expected, spoilers were deployed on touchdown, the tires and braking system worked as per design, and the thrust reversers were found in the deployed position."

The brakes were sent for further testing in the United States and appeared to be in working order, while the jet landed with plenty of fuel, said the report, ending speculation the plane had run dry.

The report says the plane landed 4,000 feet down a 9,000-foot runway, even though the Air France guidelines say the plane would have needed 7,432 feet to land.

Why the pilot landed so far down the runway is obviously one of the main questions that needs to be answered here....